The PC Scrubbing Continues

I guess that our administrators just don’t like the College’s history. Carol Folt’s strategic plan proposed changing our name to Dartmouth University — Daniel Webster and the pivotal Dartmouth College Case be damned — and now the school seal no longer makes an appearance at Commencement. Seems to have been gone for two years now. Why erase yet another old tradition? Was it the presence of unclothed American Indians on the crest, or is a more modern prejudice at work: looking askance at those Hebrew letters? In any event, the seal is gone; it’s gone away:

The photograph on the left was taken today about twenty minutes after Commencement ended; the one on the right was snapped a couple of years ago.

Addendum: Another reader writes in:

Your post today reminded me of the wallpaper that was removed from Dick’s House about two years ago:

Addendum: A Dartblog stringer reports that the seal did make it onto the Commencement ceremonies program:

October 18, 2009When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but…

October 9, 2009D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,…

September 4, 2009How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one…

August 29, 2009Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called…